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1828 Wheat, 6os. $d. per qr. (Official Returns], 



Barley, 32^. lod. ; oats, 22.$-. 6d. per qr. ; wool, gd. per 

 Ib. ; beef and mutton, ^d. ; cheese, 6d. (Driver). 



Lincoln wool, 7^. per Ib. Wet and cold season. 

 Scarcity (Driver). 



Heavy rain every day from July 6 to August 14. Fine 

 after August 15 (Whistle craft). 



Began harvest July 26 ; finished September 6 (T. O.). 



Began harvest July 31 ; finished August 26 (Cox). 



Bad harvest. Immense rains and floods in July and 

 August (Times). 



The Act of this year regulated by the fluctuating scale : 

 when at 73^., paying a duty of is. per qr. ; 61.?. and under 

 62^., 25^-. &d. ; and for every is. increase, is. off. 



Great rot in sheep. 



Great number of ewes prematurely cast their lambs in 

 several districts. July 9. Tremendous thunderstorm at 

 Bath. Houses at Widcombe inundated to a depth of 1 2 

 feet in some cases. Reports from all parts of the country 

 state that the floods in July were unprecedented. Quan- 

 tity of hay washed away, and fields of wheat laid as flat 

 as if trampled upon by a herd of cattle (Bell's Weekly 

 Messenger), July 28, 1828. 



The wet time was only from July to August 15, then 

 finer ( Whistlecraft). 



August i2. A waterspout on Mere Down, head of 

 Ashwell Bottom, the torrent of water from which com- 

 pletely flooded the lower part of the town (T. H. B.). 



June 17. Abundance of rain fell the preceding night, 

 and about 2 o'clock the sun broke out, the air becoming 

 hot and heavy (Knapp). 



Rainfall at Greenwich, 28-44 in. January, 3-87 in. 

 February, 1-04 in. March, 0-86 in. April, 2-17 in. 

 May, i '47 in. June, 1*85 in. July, 6''43 in. August, 

 375 in. September, 2-41 in. October, 1-41 jn. Novem- 

 ber, 0*8 5 in. December, 2-33 (Glaisher). 



